Mike Vanderboegh is drinking Diet Mountain Dew in the cafeteria of the Rayburn building on Capitol Hill, and he is pissed.

Not because his flight from Alabama was almost as bumpy as [his] first marriage, nor because he almost got into a physical altercation with an idiot street urban adventurer outside the National Archives who said Vanderboegh looked like Newt Gingrich.

The former militia man turned gun rights blogger is angry because he thinks the Republican sons-a-bitches on the House Oversight Committee put on the ultimate display of public limp dickery during a Thursday hearing in which Attorney General Eric Holder testified about ATFs botched Operation Fast and Furious.

It was Vanderboegh who in late 2010, following the death of border patrol agent Brian Terry, published the first hint that the federal government told gun dealers to sell semi-automatic weapons to suspected straw purchasers they believed were buying them for drug cartels.

Donations from readers of his Sipsey Street Irregulars blog helped him fly out to Washington, D.C. this week for the hearing. Sporting a homemade press pass in a badge holder branded with an NRA logo, Vanderboegh watched from behind the press table as Republicans grilled Holder about what he knew when about the flawed operation in which agents lost track of about 2,000 weapons, many of which have been found at crime scenes in Mexico.

Obama is in this year. The Republican food fight is more than most Americans can stomach. All 3 of the potential survivors are damaged goods. And with the MSM lying it’s collective butt off for BHO... it’s a fait au complit.

The Republican party is doomed. They are simply Democrat-lite. They fall in line when the Democrats bark. They don’t challenge, their only goal in life is to get and keep a job. Most of them have no guiding principles, aside from the desire to acquire wealth.

It really is time for a 3rd party. There is nothing to lose at this point.

if anyone expects the GOP to be any less corrupt than the dims they will be disappointed. It's not the gop vs the dims. It's the politicians vs the people. All the politicians will cover each others asses.

Does anyone know what happened to the guy who wrote, “Unintended Consequences”....? (a book highly critical of the ATF):

The author is divorced, right? ATF agents approached the guy’s ex-wife on the street, totally unannounced and told her, on her elbow as she was strolling along, “Ya wanna get even with him? We can give you a way....”

Holder is a mob thug and the mob runs DC and since most elected officials in DC are corrupt, ........... Imagine how hard it would be to clean up the corruption in Mexico and then equate that to the US. We pasted the point of no return when the NEW WORLD ORDER president, GH Bush was in office. Excuse my harshness but tear it down, clean the effing house and start over with the ORIGINAL Constitution in hand.

pissed/ sons-a-bitches  I dont know, too crass for me. We have so many marvelous words in the English language to convey large feelings .... This turned me off to reading the article.

I know you don't know Mike Vanderboegh from Adam, but I do. He is a good man, fighting evil. He is a patriot, a Christian family man, and a leader of men.

His salty mouth probably comes from a) his backwoods raising, b) his former Communist friends (yes, he freely admits he used to be a Communist, but did a total 180), or c) his time as a militia leader.

This is not to excuse his crassness, but perhaps to help you understand it a little.

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posted on 02/03/2012 12:21:13 PM PST
by backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")

So we should say male bovine fecal matter instead of calling things, in a straightforward manner, the bull sh*t that it is?

If I get to vote in this, I say, tell it like it is.....I'm used to the "potty-mouth" being married to a sailor for many years, I don't get offended easily by straight forward talk. Just keep the "F" word to a minimum.LOL

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posted on 02/03/2012 12:30:00 PM PST
by submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)

If I get to vote in this, I say, tell it like it is...No vote is necessary, IMO. I try to stay in the guidelines Mr. Jim has set. I'm a sailor and construction man myself and I had to learn to curb my tongue around my children and women. It's difficult, yet it can be done. Sometimes you just have to cuss.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. Mark Twain

“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight it’s way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.”

That from General Patton-—and it seems that the Republican party is exactly as he states they are.

The Republican party could not fight their way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.

The Republican party will cave in on Fast and Furious like a sand castle caves in to an Ocean wave.

If you know him so well, ask him what he expects the Republicans to do.

They picked up the story. They screamed about it to every media outlet that would have them. They have called six hearings and demanded thousands of documents. Issa has threatened Holder with contempt and has been all over FOX News.

What does your friend actually expect?

The media DON'T CARE!!! They are protecting Obama! CNN ran footage from yesterday's hearing and took HOLDER'S SIDE!!!

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posted on 02/03/2012 1:02:44 PM PST
by Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)

“It really is time for a 3rd party. There is nothing to lose at this point.”

Up until a couple weeks or so ago, I’d have disagreed vehemently. But as what passes for the top two candidates continue to bleed support, I’ve become convinced there’s no beating Obama this time around. The GOP bosses don’t want victory in the Presidential race. The responsibility of leading is simply too daunting for them.

An "ultimatum" of what? Ever hear of "separation of powers"? The obama administration will stall everything until after the election. Just like Clinton did.

The Republicans have FOX News, talk radio and the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal. That's IT. The entire rest of the broadcast media, Hollywood, every union, left-wing NGO and Democrat controlled agency is protecting Obama. They have been trying to destroy Issa since before the '10 election and he never backed down.

This constant trashing of the Republicans is ignorant and disgusting.

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posted on 02/03/2012 1:16:32 PM PST
by Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)

Remember how Trent Lott let Clinton off the hook completely then patted himself on the back for doing so, then got tossed into a pool of hungry sharks because he made a comment at Jesse Helms B-day party?

That was another GOP ultimate display of public limp dickery. Seriously, deb, the GOP is composed of absolute fail front to back, inside and out, and I really don’t see any point in being all nice nice about it any more.

Did you not live through the Bush Presidency? Asking and “ultimatum of what” is as asinine, but only slightly more sophisticated than saying “nuh uh!”

It is not my job to teach you civics. If you don’t understand what “powers” are separated, or how they are used to influence the other branches of government, you need to try a little high school before you get into discussions with the adults.

Again... on what do you want Issa to give the White House an ultimatum? I'm just asking. Like the Clintons, they are getting ready to claim everything is "executive privilege" and require the Republicans to take each claim to the Supremes. And FYI, Holder is ALREADY claiming separation of powers. And it doesn't have to be valid to eat up time till after the election.

But, answer... what do you want Issa to give an ultimatum about?

And the Bush administration has nothing to do with anything. The media and entire popular culture was against him. Like with Reagan and Nixon and Bush I, the Left harangued him in the press, drove down his poll numbers and got "private" groups to come out against him. Don't you remember The Jersey Girls? The Democrat media controls the public opinion of the country and the media is PROTECTING Barak Obama. But, hey, let's keep attacking the people trying to stop him. Genius.

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posted on 02/03/2012 1:41:06 PM PST
by Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that American government is some sort of ongoing plebiscite among the readers of People Magazine.

Yours is precisely the kind of “what do you want me to do” evasion that has the Republicans hemorrhaging support.

A congressional ultimatum is not the same thing as Issa issuing contempt citations, but I understand how someone who uses the “whirling dervish...none of that counts” tactic would try to conflate the two.

Grow the hell up! The media is NEVER going to give approval to conservatives or the rule of law, so stop pissing and whining that no one will “like” us and act like an adult instead of a reality show contestant.

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